Wednesday, March 8, 2017

It’s about the company you keep. And how you define your
politics by the people with whom you associate.

Sad to say, but one of the organizers of A Day Without Women
is a convicted Palestinian terrorist. Her name is Rasmea Odeh. We turn to
Wikipedia for her bio and her record:

Rasmea
Yousef Odeh (born
1947/1948; also known as Rasmea Yousef, Rasmieh Steve,
and Rasmieh Joseph Steve)[2][3] is
a Palestinian woman and former United States citizen convicted by Israeli
courts for her role in the murder of Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe. She served as
associate director at the Arab American Action Network in Chicago,
Illinois.[4][5][6][7]

Odeh was
convicted in 1970 by an Israeli military court of involvement in fatal
terrorist bombings, and in 2014 by a US federal
jury of immigration fraud. She was sentenced to life
in prison in Israel for her involvement in two terrorist bombings in
Jerusalem in 1969, one of which killed two people, and involvement in an
illegal organization, the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She spent 10 years in prison before
she was released in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP in 1980.[8]

The story has not made its way into the mainstream media.
After all, if you are selling the narrative that Donald Trump is responsible
for anti-Semitism because he did not denounce it forcefully enough you cannot
reasonably march behind a woman who has been convicted of killing Jews.

While we are here, we note again the terrorist connections
of Linda Sarsour, organizer of the Women’s March on Washington. Stephen Flatow,
whose daughter was murdered by Palestinian terrorists explains:

Sarsour
also has agitated for the release of Muhammad Allan, who was jailed by Israel
for his activities on behalf of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group. “Proud of
our new generation of Palestinian rights activists. Free #MUHAMMADALLAN,” Sarsour tweeted.

Islamic
Jihad is the group that carried out the bus bombing in which my daughter Alisa,
and seven other innocent people, were murdered.

A few
years ago, Sarsour
tweeted: “Nothing is creepier than Zionism.” I, for one, can think of a few
things creepier — for example, the sight of Linda Sarsour and Hamas terror
operative Salah Sarsour smiling and posing together for photos at last December’s
Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America conference.

The
Caller report added: “An FBI document from Nov. 2001 states that Salah
Sarsour’s brother, Jamil, told Israeli authorities in 1998 that he and Salah
funded the terrorist group Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation, a
Texas-based non-profit.”

One does not believe that participants in this movement are
terrorist sympathizers. But one does believe that they are aligning themselves
with anti-Semitic elements in the international radical left. They are happy to
accuse Republicans of anti-Semitism but
are incapable of seeing the rot in their own house.

They are also incapable of defending the women who have been persecuted by the people that Odeh and Sarsour support.

Flatow lists some of
the courageous women who are fighting against Palestinian misogyny:

The many Palestinian women
who are victims of “honor killings” — sometimes as many as two dozen in a
year — in which men murder female relatives whom they suspect of violating
Islamic fundamentalist morals, such as premarital relations, dressing
“provocatively” or being seen in the company of an unauthorized boyfriend.
According to The Washington Post’s Anne-Marie O’Connor, even when the
Palestinian Authority imprisons such killers, “pardons and suspended
sentences are common.”

Palestinian women
politicians who are subjugated, such as Najat Abu Baker, a member of the
Palestinian parliament who was forced to hide in the parliament building
for 17 days after the PA police sought to arrest her for criticizing PA
President Mahmoud Abbas. According to The New York Times, Abu Baker’s
“crime” was that she “said Mr. Abbas should resign and suggested that
there would be money to pay educators if ministers were not so corrupt.”

The Palestinian women
candidates for office whose names were concealed by the Palestinian
Authority in listings for planned local elections last year. They were
listed only as “sister of” or “the wife of.” The American women’s movement
would never tolerate such discrimination in the United States; why should
it turn a blind eye when Palestinian women are the victims?

Isn’t it beyond appalling that these new feminists embrace
terrorists and ignore the plight of Palestinian women? And, of course, they can
get away with it because the media is running interference for them,
suppressing the story while obsessing about Steve Bannon.

2 comments:

Seems the left has been leaning anti-semitic (via pro Palistinian) for several decades). Especially on college campuses. Brandeis banning Hirsi Ali iced that cake. A lot of cognitive dissonance among self-designated feminists